Sunday, 2 February 2014

Great review for The Lurkers in the Abyss on hellnotes

I was amazed to see a stunningly great review for my collection The Lurkers in the Abyss & Other Tales of Terror on hellnotes.

Two quotes from it:

"The universe that Riley presents is not a forgiving one. Like
Lovecraft, Riley’s early influence, his universe does not care about you
nor is it concerned with whether you are a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ person or
even what could be considered ‘fair’ in life. Many of the main
characters in Riley’s fiction are people who are simply going about
their regular lives until something happens and suddenly they have been
marked by darkness."

"In the introduction, David A. Sutton characterizes Riley’s stories as
“urban horror” and there is plenty of that here but there is also
something more. Something that, like the work of Ramsey Campbell, is
out of synch with the rest of reality. Even more, with Riley’s fiction,
you are left with the feeling that you yourself, at any time, doing the
most mundane acts, could be consumed by darkness."